4:00 The blur looks off because it's a "Box blur" not a "Gaussian Blur", which is what you're looking at most of the time. Box blur averages color values of pixels in a box-shaped neighborhood around pixels. It's very "cheap" to render/calculate/compute because it's just basic arithmetic. Gaussian blur uses a Gaussian function to get a smoother weighted average of nearby pixels. Looks better but takes more resources.

Wow I can't believe they'd remove dirt from the game. Guess we'll have to live with stone and one layer of grass blocks :/

fun fact every weapon in this snapshot is bugged and everything does 4 attack damage

I feel like the dirt background just made sense. Dirt is the first thing you see and use. When you beat the enderdragon, the end credits are talking about 'how far you have come'. A dirt background felt right as it connected you back to the start, the dirt block.

I love when they "fix" things that have been perfectly fine for 15 years

Seeing the loading box without the dirt background actually gave me a visceral reaction, it just does not look right

This feels weird to say, but I might actually miss the dirt background... It's strangely nostalgic for some reason.

Honestly, if the UI change was properly togglable and not just a texture swap (maybe called Apply Solid UI Backgrounds or something), we could have the best of both worlds

I not only hate this change, but pray to god somebody invents a texture pack to fix this horrendous issue. I HATE not seeing the iconic dirt background.

Ofc the skeleton explained you, he just walked off the dark area, and that's how you fix the bug!

Feels like Minecraft changes in the most slow and insignificant ways over years

I really dislike this distancing from the public companies have. Notch used to take feedback all the time and even go to community servers, it truly felt like you were able to talk to the creator and give feed back. Now everything happens so distanced from us, away in some dark room, only occasionally revealed for press releases or updates, never truly transparent.

Kind of a shame that the dirt background is removed honestly, i really liked it because it offered a sense of safety and comfort, similar to when you turn to face the wall while trying to sleep.

I read a youtube comment saying how Minecraft is starting to not feel and not look like Minecraft anymore, and now i kinda agree

removing the dirt background from the endgame credits makes me sad the dirt backgroud was nostalgic :(

Personally i like the end portal background, but it would be cool if they managed a smooth transition from end portal to dirt, it would keep the old design while also showing going back to the regular world

6:45 I kind of want something like this for minecraft, but the opposite. When you come out of the dark the game brightens up a lot more temporarily, before coming back down. I always liked that dilation effect in videogames, making it look like your eyes are adjusting to the light.

I know it's a very common saying now that "Minecraft is losing its soul", but let's be honest... even such a small change as removing the dirt from the background to make it more in-line with more modern games takes away from the game's identity, even if only slightly. And that's just... sad.

6:54 Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush. Same as us, and that thief over there.

So basically, they're messing with accessibility and vision. Yeah, that's gonna be great... I already have issues with viewing text and seeing in the game (even at max brightness, I struggle to see when mining quite frequently unless I have torches like... every 4 blocks). Mojang there are people who are LITERALLY BLIND who play your game, you did a feature on one of them. Don't fuck with the ability to see things... EDIT: An easy fix for the end poem would be to put a black box behind the text, leaving the rest with the end portal effect. Because the end portal effect looks great! It just makes the text unreadable. :/

It really scares me when they try to use bedrock stuff as the standard for what the game should be. I mean, they're taking notes from a version where bugs that they know exist are kept in the game even though they're game breaking, like falling through the world after a specific distance or just randomly dying because the game decided it was gonna store your fall damage and then apply it all at once. This is not the version to be taking notes from Mojang.

I think the new UI would be cooler if the dirt was kept for headers/footers, like in the options or world selection menus. Feels more Minecrafty, too. The “Panorama Screens” mod does this, and Iris does it for its shaderpack menu. Also gives the feeling of peering out into the world.

I feel like instead of the blur they should've just used the same darkening effect that the inventory screens and the old pause menu already have, just apply it to more menus. It allows you to clearly see what's happening in front of you while still separating the background from the menu. The only place I think the blur looks nice is on the main menu panorama, and not only because it's more interesting to look at while selecting and loading a world, but also for the nostalgia of the original pre-1.13 blurry menu panorama. The End Poem change is fine on paper, but I think it's failing to account for the fact that the end portal texture is generally only seen on a relatively small portion of the screen, and having it cover the entirety of it makes it WAY too detailed and noisy, especially for a simple background. Maybe if they zoomed in on it to show more of the empty space between the "stars" it would look better. I still think the dirt was just fine, though, and it really made it feel like distinctly a part of Minecraft.

Man the dirt background was the last bit of nostalgia there was, at least it shouldn't be too difficult to get it back..

4:55 bedrocks end screen has a dirt background

As a bedrock player I don’t have much nostalgia for the dirt, it does look nice to me to have at least a darkened area but the blur is throwing me off a bit. The end poem definitely belongs as dirt though and I think it should have stayed, I feel like it’s always been a representation of how many blocks, how far you had to go, to get to the end, and that the world is truly infinite and you can continue your journey and do whatever you want. But now it’s just space, which looks more like an actual end to the game which could discourage players from doing more.

I wish everything wasn’t modernised, everything was way better back then

...I made hundreds of custom items in a data pack using the current format. This is like finding out someone will gouge out 1-inch holes in my drywall, all over my house. This is a nightmare.

Obviously it needs fixing to make sure it works properly, but I think this actually looks really nice. Maybe them adding a toggle for this would be the best course of action, or even just the ability to add darkness to the background to make text more legible? Also, feel it would be nice to add a toggle for gaussian blur, maybe dumb it down as 'High Quality Blur' in the settings? Not sure if I fw the aesthetic of the box blur

Good old JSON, nothing better to keep something together whilst also completely breaking it with a minor change

Hey be glad they didn't apply pause parity to Java. In Bedrock you can't pause single player worlds, you'd already be blown up by that creeper.

Removing the dirt background is like McDonald's getting rid of their M. Why would you get rid of one of your most brandable parts.

Wow, they changed quite a lot in a version I will not play.

I think it would work really well by making the top and bottom as the dirt texture and leaving the middle as the blur. That way we can have the blur without having to get rid of a part of the game that's so iconic

I really like that new blur effect. Feels refreshing. I don't know if I will miss dirt. I honestly never thought of this dirt background more than just a dirt background

About the "darkness setting" near the end, I think it should instead do the opposite, as in the player's eyes are getting used to the dark 🤔

The only place I’ll truly miss the dirt background is in the end poem. Everywhere else it was weird. The options menu had a bugged screen where it would overlap a 2nd layer of dirt blocks and in the world edit screen it faded into black behind the tabs. Oh well. Goodbye dirt 😢 👋

having those boxes around things like in bedrock just lookd super tacky to me. like a school programing project

There’s that old question where you have a ship, but you take every piece of it until every piece is replaced. Is it the same ship still? No. It’s not

I think this removes an integral staple of the game that's literally existed since indev. It sounds stupid, but I think parts of the game should be preserved like artefacts.

BRING BACK THE DIRT BACKGROUND!!! that background was integral to the end poem and i want it to be preserved forever

the blur is probably messed up because its a box blur rather than gaussian to reduce cpu load

Besides the commands, change for change’s sake. Great

Now we can feel old when someone ask "the background was dirt?"

While I believe that Mojang has gone about "modernising" Minecraft's GUI very tastefully (keeping the '90s aesthetic in tact), I'm definitely going to miss the old, rough look a little bit.

The Dirt background is very nostalgic

Wow i actualy really dislike having a moving background with text, it almost makes me dizzy

i never messed with nbt data before and im glad you can actually like, use stuff like this now without knowledge of it.

ive been using a vanillatweaks menu background texture for a while because dirt isnt very nice to look at, but i dont generally like blur in games and i dont get why there is now an esc menu background for the high contrast

If they fix the dirt background appearing on the pause screen, I'll be fine with it. I don't really get the point of changing the UI like this though, the current design is pretty timeless, and more readable.

5:15 I could be wrong but I believe bedrock uses the dirt background for the end screen.

Cant wait to get a resource pack to make it look normal again

Can't say I'm a huge fan of these changes. I could see certain combinations of text colors and what's on screen in the background being a bit hard to read. Especially the end sequence with the aqua-colored text on an aqua-colored background. Hopefully we get an option to keep the old background while not breaking the pause menu or lighting.

"bye bye nostalgia, hello moderinzation" me, playing BetterThanAdventure for a long time now, no longer playing modern MC:

Imagine if they applied this to the Deep Dark. And when a player complains this to them, they would say “Now you want Minecraft to not be realistic?” That would be funny, sort off. It would help give Deep Dark some more deep dark- Yeah

Mojang streamlining their internals is NOT what I expected for this snapshot. Good on Mojang!

I'd much rather the blurring be an option, and when it's off it just goes back to Dirt. Except for the escape menu, since the darkening was so much better in every way Also importantly, have it so that the dirt is separated from the Programmer Art, since I prefer the new block textures and I would have it on just for dirt.png

As expected, the blur hurts my eyes. The good thing is, I can just turn it off. And while I didn't mind the dirt before, I like the way menu backgrounds works now!

I like where they’re going with this, but it still needs some polishing. For example, fixing the readability problems you mentioned.

I wish they used like Kawase blur or something other than a box blur would make it look much nicer and not cost much more, they probably chose Box blur due to performance issues with Gaussian, but those arent the only two methods :(

They should make that when you go to the end portal after beating the ender dragon that if u have an block in ur inventory the block u have in ur hand will be the backroud at the end thingy

0:06 SatureenixSC lets freaking gooo

I'm genuinely surprised how little I like the removal of the dirt background. I've always associated it with the menu and loading screens, and it became an integral part of the Minecraft experience after seeing it for 10+ years. I thought it wouldn't be that different, but it completely put me off upon seeing it, lol.

I dont understand why people hate the UI change. It's honestly refreshing to not have to stare at the dirt texture while I change my controls for a modpack or configuring mods. Hell, Ive been changing that background with mods like bedrockify, which I feel nails what mojang should be going for here. I've also played around with vannilaextras to change the block for years. The biggest point against it is probably accesibility, which will probably be resolved before full release.

I don't really understand the concept of embracing any instance of change when said change doesn't even need to happen in the first place. I mean, that might apply to, say, human aging since it's totally non-negotiable, but it's not as if Mojang had to make this alteration to Minecraft. Nobody was holding them at gunpoint. Nobody asked for this or wanted this, so why embrace it?

Talk about a company doing anything and everything possible to distance itself from its roots. So much history is gone, but at least the Creeper is still the face of the game I guess. (Also dog knee pads are still on the wrong side of their legs. Dogs legs bend opposite to humans)

i wish we could either choose like a master setting for blurrieness or adjust the end screen and like regular ui seperatly. or just make it dirt, or just set it like it was before or whatever it was.

I legit love the new end poem background, however i dont care for the blur, Tho I am excited for mismatched enchants, Loyalty snowballs seem like a lovely idea

Ive been saying it for 5 years. Minecraft is being ruined.

"New" minecraft sucs

This reminds me of the legacy edition by 4J where the panorama is shown as you're selecting a world. This makes me feel more nostalgic than the boring dirt background. My only problem is that they used it on the pause screen. Now you can't see clearly when you're paused, which you were able to do before. I also doesn't make the screen darker when you're paused which I don't like.

High contrast is now a challenge mode 😂

they are making look like bedrock, disqusting

Please if no one makes a texture pack that brings back the old back round I will learn how to make texture packs myself and i will bring it back.

Brings you back to alpha minecraft with that dirt background on EVERY MENU xD

Pre wrote command structure options 🔥🔥🔥 Commands changes are gonna be huge

I refuse to play modern Minecraft without the dirt background. I will always replace the texture file or find a mod that fixes the background

Microsoft really has just deleted the game we all grew up with and replaced it with something very similar.. Feels bad man.

I like the background change, it looks a lot better now, but it should be togglable for people that preffer the old one

I think the menu changes look really nice The chat bleeding into other menus and previous opaque backgrounds applying to the pause menu is strange, but the blurred background looks alot nicer than the dirt and the end portal being on the credits just makes more sense.

5:06 Don’t worry, you can still find the minecraft dirt.png on the internet.

Dude haven’t played minecraft in years now but I still watch this lad man, such a sooth

The next layer of progression after tools and armor: Accessories: It Increases player’s stats like hit points, block reach, jump hieght, inventory slots… . An Additional heart icons will appear for the player. Accessories are crafted with blocks of ore (blocks of diamond, iron…) and unique loot from epic dungeons. They have levels just like tools and armor according to the ore it’s made of, just like armor and tools. They are spread through the dimension they are useful for, for example to craft the one who extends block reach, one should go to caves(trail chambers), adding inventory slots -> the end, adding breath points/bubbles oceans and adding hit points/hearts -> warden dimension… .

I like the new updated look, I think it look very neat!

R.i.p dirt it felt so og especially with the credits it takes you back from the start

I like the new changes, the new credits background looks awesome.

I've never been a fan of making textures more simplified to the point where it feels like they are using the equivalent to the paint bucket tool on MS paint.

I know one previous case of enchantments working on something they can't usually be on was tridents with melee enchantments - sharpness, for example, worked on it's melee attack (as it does on any item it's forced onto) but it ALSO worked on the trident's projectile shot, increasing the ranged damage too. I'd assume it's likely due to how the trident is coded to handle melee enchants since impaling also seems to work the same way. I'd also have to wonder if multishow will now cause multiple tridents to be thrown and if that will just result in trident duplication...

this looks AWESOME!! Personally, I love the way it looks. I used to have to download several individual mods to achieve this kind of effect, but now I don't. I really hope they implement a way to toggle all of these changes, though, because I'm already missing the dirt background LOL

man that background removal is SUCH an accessibility issue, i didn’t even realize how important it was for readability till you showed it off here. that sucks

"Thanks for everything"

*relaxes with relief when he said “texture pack to fix this”*

the lack of the dirt background in the end message actually broke my heart wtf

This is actually really useful for seeing if your game is frozen or not :D

1:50 As a fellow potatoman. I got excited for a second then I realised he wasnt talking about me

Terraria: We added 20 new Bosses and 200 items. Community: “Oh so it’s a minor update” Minecraft: *Slightly alters the texture of one block Community: “How could you?! My childhood is ruined 😢”

Seeing the dirt go is sad, but the new blur looks amazing!

Last time i went in the end portal in bedrock it had the dirt background, so the credits change is just artistic ig, and the no dirt background in the main menu is def for parity

While I am more used to the old background, especially as someone who started playing in 2010, I would say the new one is better because you can now see your surroundings while in a menu.

I really like a lot of these changes. However, the end portal background drives me mad. I have really bad eyesight, so it causes physical pain to try and read anything on it. I also don't think they should change the end credits that dramatically. The end scroll on dirt background is iconic. Other than that and the bugs, I think this is a really good update.